Kirkcaldy
Sign in to saveKirkcaldy ( ; ; ) is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about north of Edinburgh and south-southwest of Dundee. The town had a recorded population of 49,460 in 2011, making it Fife's second-largest settlement and the 11th most populous settlement in Scotland.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.type
- Town and former royal burgh
- UK place.official_name
- Kirkcaldy
- UK place.local_name
- The Lang Toun
- UK place.scots_name
- Kirkcaldy
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Cair Chaladain
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NT275915
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.civil_parish
- Kirkcaldy and Dysart
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Fife
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Fife
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Kirkcaldy
- UK place.post_town
- KIRKCALDY
- UK place.postcode_district
- KY1, KY2
- UK place.postcode_area
- KY
- UK place.dial_code
- 01592
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Kirkcaldy ( ; ; ) is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about north of Edinburgh and south-southwest of Dundee. The town had a recorded population of 49,460 in 2011, making it Fife's second-largest settlement and the 11th most populous settlement in Scotland.
Kirkcaldy has long been nicknamed the Lang Toun (; Scots for "long town") in reference to the early town's main street, as indicated on maps from the 16th and 17th centuries. The street would finally reach a length of nearly , connecting the burgh to the neighbouring settlements of Linktown, Pathhead, Sinclairtown and Gallatown, which became part of the town in 1876. The formerly separate burgh of Dysart was also later absorbed into Kirkcaldy in 1930 under an act of Parliament.